I don't know what kind of stuff Richard is smoking, and that might be related with his 'memory' and 'police encounters', but - obviously Raphael - who organised the first (F)OSDEM knows what he is talking about. I'm sure that if there where noteworthy meetings in Brussels before 2000, that I would have known. Aside from Iguana, linuxroom and Ulyssis in Leuven, Infogroup at the VUB and the Linux guys in Antwerp and Gent university and Louvain-Li-nux there was HIP97 and 'after hip' and 'post after hip' which I organised with Lumumba at the University near Hasselt. If you look for a document from the past; this might be the closest to a full view from back then: https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Belgian-HOWTO/lugs.html And I remember the time very well; we where very happy to support Fosdem under our name back then: Life/VA Linux. And at the first OSDEM, RMS even helped me personally to install Debian at the time (I was more RPM focused before 2000 ;-) Let me take this opportunity to thank all these people who have invested so much time, sweat and effort into building this incredible event - every year I seem to know less people at the event; and I think that's a good thing, as the community grows and becomes more international and younger ;-) Thanks for building this community and accomplishing such a monumental task, year after year! See you soon! Jasper -- Jasper Nuyens Managing Director, Linux Belgium http://www.linuxbe.com Phone: +32 (0)2 747 47 01 Fax: +32 (0)2 747 47 10 GSM: +32 (0)478 978967 On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 7:07 PM Raphaël Bauduin <raphinou@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, 17:13 Richard Ibbotson, <richard.ibbotson@gmail.com> wrote:
Raphaël
The OSDEM event, the first event which was subsequently renamed Fosdem, was held in 2001. Organisation started somewhere in October or november 2000.
An event in 1995 is distinct and independent of Fosdem.
I'm sure that this is a correct legal statement for the purposes of the present day FOSDEM trademark. However. The evidence surrounding the event has been somewhat obfuscated by various events and activities dating back to about 1994/1995. Also. I remember you making a public statement back in 2001 in front of myself and the assembled crowd that OSDEM only started in 2001. When in fact it had been around for a while.
Keeping repeating otherwise won't change the fact that the first OSDEM edition was in 2001. You can pretend as you want, but the 2001 event was organised from scratch by people that hadn't organised this kind of event before.
I noticed that someone was telling you some not quite correct stories about something.
That kind of happens sometimes indeed.
Never mind. I'm sure that people will enjoy FOSDEM 2020 and hopefully it will continue for some years to some :)
-- Richard
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